Martin Tomko

@dinomirmt.bsky.social

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Understanding and supporting people in their spatial interactions through computational #spatial #data #science #giscience #melbourne 🛶🚵‍♂️🥾🏊‍♂️🐕
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Interested in transformation invariant shape classification on vector data?
"Learning geometric invariant features for classification of vector polygons with graph message-passing neural network" Check Zexian's PhD work (Dr Huang!) doi.org/10.1007/s107... #giscience #spatial #ml #GeoAI #GisChat

Compared data representations and their adequate ML architectures

PolyMP and PolyMP DSC architectures designed for graph representation learning of vector shapes.

Reposted by Du Toit, Martin Tomko, Gernot Wagner

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."

China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use

Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.

www.reuters.com

Reposted by Martin Tomko, Daniel Kuehn, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 2 more Martin Tomko, Daniel Kuehn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Virginia Sapiro, Peter Bergman

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 3d

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Sign the Petition

Save Geography at the University of Leicester

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 3d

passregister.com.au

Parliamentary Pass Register

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Reposted by Martin Tomko

Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 4d

Fines and arrests didn’t work — Georgians still blocked Rustaveli Ave for 343 nights. Now, on day 344, police show up in huge numbers to physically prevent it. Here, protesters march on narrow Leonidze St, yet police only allow them a small slice of the road.

🎥 Publika

Reposted by Rafael H. M. Pereira, Martin Tomko

Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 4d

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.

by @TheEconomist

A scatter plot titled "Fair and square? Russian federal elections, 2000-21" which visualizes the results of Russian federal elections. The x-axis represents voter turnout in percentage, ranging from 0 to 100%. The y-axis represents the percentage of votes for Putin, Medvedev, or the United Russia party, also ranging from 0 to 100%. Each dot on the plot represents a polling station. A cluster of dots appears in the upper right corner, indicating high voter turnout and a high percentage of votes for the specified candidates. A dashed rectangle highlights a grid-like pattern of dots at numbers ending in zero and five, with an annotation suggesting this pattern indicates potential foul play. The source is cited as Kobak and Shpilkin (2021).

Reposted by Martin Tomko

Euronews @euronews.com · 4d

The US Army removed guidance directing soldiers to food banks during the government shutdown after Euronews reported it. Soldiers await mid-November pay.

US Army removes food bank guidance for soldiers after Euronews report

The US Army removed guidance directing soldiers to food banks during the government shutdown after Euronews reported it. Soldiers await mid-November pay.

l.euronews.com

Reposted by Martin Tomko

FOSS4G 2025 Auckland @foss4g.org · 5d

🪩Gala Dinner! 💃🕺

A mid-conference pause
Hear a career story from Kim Ollivier, aka Godfather of FOSS4G in NZ
Listen to Rua Puka's inspiration for our logo
Feast & Dance + live music

Wed 19 Nov
6p - 10p
Hilton Auckland Central
https://bit.ly/3WHeU14

#foss4g #osgeo #gala
Photo: Wolves and Ravens

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 5d

We are not aware of broadly available language+vision models in eg Chinese, are you?

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 5d

Very interesting and timely for us. Did you also test this in a multimodal setting (vision grounding?)

Reposted by Martin Tomko, Erik Champion

Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 5d

I would read this subterranean horror novel

Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web alo...

phys.org

Reposted by Martin Tomko

Denník N @dennikn.bsky.social · 5d

Kanadská firma začala skúmať ložiská antimónu v Malých Karpatoch, Pezinok kritizuje ministerstvo

…životného prostredia za nečinnosť a ešte na jar varoval pred ekologickou katastrofou. Teraz podal podnet na generálnu prokratúru. Tarabov rezort útočí na mesto a tvrdí, že podniká kroky na zrušenie rozhodnutí o prieskume. Reportáž o kauze priniesla v utorok televízia Markíza. Ložiskový prieskum pripravila podľa ministerstva predošlá vláda a v…

dennikn.sk

Reposted by Iain Davidson, Martin Tomko, Fiona Armstrong

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7d

“In union, there is strength.” ― Aesop

Please, all in the conservation movement, do not do deals that simply favour your pet areas, in exchange for publicly endorsing @australianlabor.bsky.social's pathetic environmental law reform bill.

Demand the whole package is improved, back in the science!

Reposted by Martin Tomko

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8d

"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change."

- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

Reposted by Martin Tomko

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 8d

"PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts"

Damning work by @skyelark.bsky.social on this govt's secrecy
#OffTheCharts #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts

If he doesn’t change course, the Prime Minister may end up leading exactly the kind of 'shadow government' that he derided his predecessor for.

thepoint.com.au

Reposted by Martin Tomko

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 8d

"Until the end!” - my favourite slogan (sounds “Bolomde” in Georgian).

Day 340 of daily #GeorgiaProtests, despite the regime jailing those who stand on the road (or get a face mask, the lack of which results in an EUR 1,700 fine too).

📷 Droa party

Reposted by Martin Tomko

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8d

This @oilchange.bsky.social report into how Aus, Norway, the US and Canada are going hell-for-leather on oil and gas is pretty incredible.

This graphic stood out to me:

oilchange.org/publications...

Figure 4: Global North Oil and Gas Company Profits vs Climate Finance Delivered to the Global South
Since the Paris Agreement

Reposted by Elena Litchman, Martin Tomko, Silvia Secchi , and 5 more Elena Litchman, Martin Tomko, Silvia Secchi, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Will Lowe, Lex Heerma van Voss, Nick Fisher, David Stott

Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 9d

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Martin Tomko, Adrian Vickers , and 2 more Timothy Snyder, Martin Tomko, Adrian Vickers, Bessma Momani, Jeremy Ginges

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9d

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Nick Couldry , and 12 more Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Nick Couldry, Will Jennings, Maarten Vink, Leigh Sparks, Dirk Pilat, Ian Hall, Martin Tomko, Martin J. Smith, Joshua Goodman, Miles Corak, Robert Wolfe, Margot C. Finn, Graham Dutfield

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10d

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Reposted by Martin Tomko, David Underdown

Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Help me turn the State Library of Victoria's digitised maps into data! https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/ (bit of a soft launch, so let me know if you see any errors in the documentation...)

Screenshot of a webpage headed "Georeferencing maps from the State Library of Victoria". The page includes an image of a historic map overlaid on a modern digital basemap, and a big blue button that invites visitors to "View the project dashboard to see the latest progress". The introductory text reads: "This is an experimental project developed during my time as Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the SLV LAB. While playing around with IIIF and AllMaps, I wondered if it might be possible to connect a few things up and make it easy for people to georeference SLV's digitised maps. This is the result!".

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 13d

hey @arc-tracker.bsky.social do you know of a time series graph for ARC budget? Even better, inflation adjusted... If not, will dig further...

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe some still embargoed for some sec issues?

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 17d

Then they may all be co-authors, no? This is very common in eng or sci.

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 17d

I think it fits best under research. But may be individual. I have supervised theses in Arts, and had to fight the system to be a named co-supervisor etc, and get credit.

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 18d

Depends on Dept. Ours has complete transparency of workloads(🔥++👍), that is one killer excel sheet.

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 18d

Yes/yes/yes/yes. Why else would you supervise. Even masters (incl coursework) theses do often copublished, require work, and count as research. Only course coordination counts as teaching workload.

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 18d

Purely and exclusively research. Realistically, only research that gets done, and always is orioritised. May be typical for Eng and CIS. Every student gets min 1hr per week, fills easily a day+ (incl cosup) in mtngs only

Reposted by Martin Tomko, Gilles Louppe

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19d

What if we did a single run and declared victory

Three panel thing. In the left panel we use error bars. In the second, we take statistical significance as the biggest number but still have error bars. In LLM science, we just have the biggest number

Reposted by Martin Tomko

The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 20d

Developers of the "Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism" lesson, currently in The Carpentries Incubator, are looking for Carpentries community members and Instructors willing to to host and teach beta pilot workshops in 2025 and 2026: carpentries.org/blog/2025/10...

Calling for Beta Pilot Workshops: Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism

Researchers from the Department of Urbanism and members of the Digital Competence Centre at TU Delft have worked since 2023 on the curriculum Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism, currently in The C...

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